Tequila Recipe Docked in Acapulco: Why Were Filipino Sailors Key to Creating the Drink?

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The tequila recipe was not born in Jalisco? The preparation of this popular Mexican drink includes techniques whose origin would have been taken up by Filipino sailors, who would have provided the key thanks to their knowledge of the transformation of the coconut sap into a spirit, in a process known as Lambanog. Tequila bottles now reach high prices in fashion bars. And debates on the cultural appropriation and sustainability of the agave come …